{"id":57132,"date":"2014-12-15T11:40:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T16:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57132"},"modified":"2014-12-15T11:40:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T16:40:39","slug":"exacto-guided-small-caliber-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57132","title":{"rendered":"EXACTO; guided small caliber bullet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=57133\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57133\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DARPA-EXACTO-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"DARPA EXACTO\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DARPA-EXACTO-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DARPA-EXACTO-500x278.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DARPA-EXACTO.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/dod-wants-bullet-that-can-change-direction-after-being-fired-1.319419\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in conjunction with Teledyne Scientific &#038; Imaging, LLC has developed a .50 caliber bullet that can change direction after it&#8217;s left the muzzle of the gun. It&#8217;s call the EXACTO (Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance) program;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> \u201cThe objective of the EXACTO program is to revolutionize rifle accuracy and range by developing the first ever guided small-caliber bullet,\u201d DARPA officials said in a July statement accompanying the video. \u201cThe EXACTO .50-caliber round and optical sighting technology expects to greatly extend the day and nighttime range over current state-of-the-art sniper systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The specially designed ammunition can change direction in midair.<\/p>\n<p>How that is done remains a tightly held secret. The Defense Department and its related agencies declined to comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A short DARPA video of the two test firings;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AOv1GkEETRU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not naming names, but I&#8217;ve seen some of you shoot and you need this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in conjunction with Teledyne Scientific &hellip; <a title=\"EXACTO; guided small caliber bullet\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57132\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EXACTO; guided small caliber bullet<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}